Data Product Analysts

Arden University

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Data Product Analyst within Arden University’s Data Practice, you’ll play a key role in translating our data product vision and strategy into clear, actionable requirements that enable our teams to deliver valuable data products. Working closely with Data Product Leads, Lead Engineers and the wider Scrum team, you’ll bridge the gap between product strategy and technical delivery. You’ll capture and document business and data requirements, map processes and workflows, and translate strategic priorities into structured user stories and well-defined backlog items that development teams can confidently take forward. You’ll act as the day-to-day link between the Data Product Leads and the Scrum team, ensuring requirements are clear, understood and ready for delivery. You’ll help facilitate effective collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders, bringing structure and clarity to complex requirements and supporting the smooth progression of initiatives from idea through to delivery. While your primary focus will be requirements analysis and documentation, you’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to wider data product development activities, supporting team priorities and helping to continuously improve how we develop and deliver data products across the University.

Requirements

• Relevant degree or professional qualification in a numerate, business or analytical discipline, such as Business, Data, Economics or Computer Science, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Proven experience working successfully in a Product Analyst, Business Analyst or similar requirements-focused role, ideally within a data or technical product environment.
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, analysis and documentation, with the ability to translate business needs into clear, structured and delivery-ready requirements.
• Strong process mapping and documentation skills, with experience using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, draw.io or Miro.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments, including backlog management, user story writing and defining acceptance criteria.
• Experience translating ambiguous or complex business needs into clear, structured requirements that can be understood and delivered by technical teams.
• Good understanding of data concepts, including data models, data sources and data pipelines; full data engineering experience is not required.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both business and technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within a Higher Education setting.
• Experience with data and analytics tooling such as Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or similar.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, or other backlog management tooling.
• Experience supporting multiple product workstreams concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Translate data product vision and strategy into clear, actionable requirements.
• Bridge the gap between product strategy and technical delivery.
• Capture and document business and data requirements.
• Map processes and workflows.
• Translate strategic priorities into structured user stories and well-defined backlog items.
• Act as the day-to-day link between Data Product Leads and the Scrum team.
• Ensure requirements are clear, understood, and ready for delivery.
• Facilitate effective collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bring structure and clarity to complex requirements.
• Support the smooth progression of initiatives from idea through to delivery.
• Contribute to wider data product development activities.
• Support team priorities.
• Help continuously improve how data products are developed and delivered across the University.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!
• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%
• SimplyHealth plan option
• Private Medical Insurance coverage (applies to certain job roles)
• Access to Perkbox benefits
• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends
• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree